Cai Yuan-pei's University Educational Thought & the Enlightenment

Cai Yuan-pei is a great educator in China.He believes that a university is an institution in which the profound knowledge can be researched.Based on understanding the nature of university,the school-running thought should be embodied on the principle o ffreedom of thought and all-inclusive.The university-education thought of Mr.Cai Yuanpei provides lessons and references for the reform and development of higher education in China.To create a first-class university,China should always take the research of higher learning as a vital feature of first-class universities,a university itself should set up a rational teacher-educated-origin structure to create an academic environment with freedom of thought and all-inclusive,and meanwhile university carry out the reform of the credit system,strengthen the management and construction of the credit-selecting system and intensify the guidance of student course-selecting process so as to form the systematization of student knowledge structure.